UN Elects Ugandan as President, Pushing Back on US LGBT Pressure

By Wendy Wright

NEW YORK, June 20 (C-FAM) Western pressure on African countries to liberalize policies on homosexuality has had a boomerang effect, uniting Africans against it and resulting in what some see as a new non-aligned movement of countries.

Last week the United Nations elected a Ugandan as president of the General Assembly over  last-ditch efforts by activists who, along with the Obama administration, have condemned Uganda’s recently enacted law against homosexual acts.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists called on the Obama administration to deny Sam Kutesa's visa, but by election day at the UN, their petition had only gathered 13,466 signatures.

Kutesa is Uganda’s foreign minister and defended the law internationally, stating promotion and exhibition of homosexuality “is wrong for our young people and it offends our culture.”

Africans called Western criticism of Uganda an attack on national sovereignty and some noted, “the Western world criminalizes almost all of these same offenses” as the amended law, such as homosexual rape.

The role of president of the General Assembly is symbolic though prominent. The highest profile task is presiding over the assembly as heads of state address its 193 members each year.

The position is rotated annually among regions. It is Africa’s turn, and the African Union--most of which ban homosexual acts--put forward only one candidate.

In February, Uganda’s President Museveni hinted he sought closer military ties to Russia because of U.S. meddling on LGBT issues. Russia has also defied criticism of its ban on exposing children to homosexual propaganda.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched the first salvo for international LGBT rights in a speech at the UN in 2011. Soon after, President Obama announced he would condition foreign aid on LGBT rights.

African leaders predicted the U.S. policy would provoke a “significant diplomatic confrontation.” Kenyans said, “Those who live as gays need help to live right and we should not be supporting them to live in a wrong reality.”

In March, Africans were forced to abandon their resolution on AIDS after it was amended by governments advocating for sexual rights. The resolution sponsored by African countries struggling with the deadly disease was tailored to address public health and protecting women and girls.

European, U.S., and Latin American delegates, who view AIDS as a political opportunity to advance sexual rights, demanded the resolution remove references to reducing the number of sexual partners and delaying sexual initiation.

After Western countries lost in lengthy negotiations, they eventually outmaneuvered the Africans using a technicality in the last moments of the conference. One disheartened African delegate said, “It’s all about sex, sex, sex for them.”

A senior U.S. diplomat recently warned about the Obama administration’s heavy-handed approach, CNSNews reports. Richard Hoagland co-hosted the first LGBT “pride celebration” at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan in 2011. A week later, protesters said the U.S. had “unleashed cultural terrorism on us.”

Speaking at an event on global LGBT rights, Hoagland cautioned some countries “will react to our values and goals with backlash” against homosexuality.

Last week a U.S. senator introduced a bill to make LGBT rights a permanent feature of U.S. foreign policy.

Source: Friday Fax, via Julio Severo in English

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By Julio Severo, with information of AP.

Consuls of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and Portugal took part in the third gay “pride” parade of Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki. Reportedly, the event drew some 6,000 people.

Gay activists taking part in gay parade in Thessaloniki, Saturday, June 21, 2014

U.S. Consul Robert P. Sanders carried a banner that read “Diplomats for Thessaloniki Pride.”

Diplomats joined this year because, according to AP, they “support diversity and freedom of choice.”

The march again was condemned by the local Orthodox church, whose leader, Bishop Anthimos, described it as a “promotion of perversion.”

Western nations as the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada have the power to influence the destiny of other nations, and they have chosen to use their power on behalf of homosexuality.

Innocent Christians have been slaughtered by Islamists in Syria, and no Western diplomats have marched to support their lives or carry banners that read “Let Syrian Christians live.”

On the contrary, Islamists who have been raping, torturing and killing Syrian Christians have received military support from the United States.

Apparently, the priority of Western diplomats is the sexual pleasure of those who live in homosexual vice, not the lives of Christians.

Portuguese version of this article: Diplomatas dos EUA e Europa juntam-se à parada do “orgulho” gay na Grécia

Spanish version of this article: Diplomáticos de los EE.UU. y Europa se unieron a un desfile de “orgullo” gay en Grecia, hacen caso omiso de la situación difícil de los cristianos sirios

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Pat Robertson Blames Bush’s Iraq War for Recent Violence

Gina Meeks

Televangelist Pat Robertson recently spoke out against President George W. Bush's war in Iraq and said it was to blame for the country's outbreak of violence.

Pat Robertson recently spoke out against President George W. Bush's war in Iraq. (CBN)

Iraq is in the midst of severe violence as the radical terrorist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is taking territory and overwhelming national military units.

The Christian Broadcasting Network founder was asked on a Monday broadcast of The 700 Club about the current situation in Iraq.

"George Bush went into Iraq with approval from Congress, but with disapproval of most other countries. We broke it, now it is our responsibility to fix it. Is there hope? How does this fit into the plans of Almighty God?" the viewer asked during the show's "Bring It On" segment.

Robertson, a former Bush supporter, responded by calling it a "great mistake" to go to Iraq, pointing out that Saddam Hussein's "bomb maker" had said the then-dictator "doesn't know how to make an atomic bomb."

"And so to sell the American people on weapons of mass destruction, he had WMD and was getting [concentrated uranium] yellowcake out of Africa and all of that, it was a lot of nonsense," Robertson noted. "We were sold a bill of goods, we should never have gone into that country!"

He added: "As bad as Saddam Hussein was, he held those warring factions in check, and he contained those radical Islamists. Fix it, no? It's too late to fix it. It's unfixable. Those simmering animosities have been there for centuries."

Robertson supposed there would be conflict in Iraq until the end times brought about the Antichrist.

"They will continue to play out until such times that the Lord brings out of Babylon some evil Antichrist or something," he said.

The television preacher also compared Hussein's suppression of Islamic terrorist groups with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.

"The same thing with that wicked dictator over there in Syria. He was with the Ba'ath party over there, and he held down the Muslim Brotherhood," he added.

Source: Charisma, via Julio Severo in English

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ISIS is now fighting fiercely in Iraq to establish a world Caliphate and it is killing everyone in its path without mercy. So where does that brutal Caliphate have its seat?

Washington, DC. Washington is the face of the Caliphate. The GOP and the Democrats are working together to overthrow Assad, even though the latter is the last ruler in the Middle East who has protected Christians. However, to put it that way gives our traitorous government too much credit. I strongly suspect they want to overthrow Assadbecause he protects Christians (I once heard a Syrian pastor say in a sermon that Assad’s government actually donated cement to Christian groups that wanted to build churches). The evidence of a growing anti-Christian sentiment among Washington’s top echelons is overwhelming. Obama and Hillary surrounded themselves with Muslim “advisors.” Bill waged war with American blood and treasure in Serbia that led to the creation of a Muslim state, Kosovo, from the Christian Serbia. Indigenous Assyrian Christians started leaving Iraq almost immediately after we “won” the war there. Most now live in Malmö, Sweden. Has the definition of the word “win” changed?

A fair number of Americans still blindly believe that the situation in Iraq is every bit the fault of Obama and the Democrats. If that were true, then electing Republicans would save America, wouldn’t it? But it is not true and it won’t.

Linked below is a series of articles/videos that show how the US government on both sides of the aisle (not to be confused with We the People) support unimaginable cruelty.

The series shows that the Free Syrian Army, with whose leaders former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Republican, CFR member) met in 2013, is linked to terrorist organization al-Nusra, which is in turn linked to ISIS. It must be noted that some of these organizations have since turned against each other, with ISIS being virtually isolated at the moment, due to its brutality, but this fluidity of their loyalties is all the more proof that giving US weaponry to any of them is a mistake, if not an intentional one. Mitt Romney, also a GOP presidential candidate, announced his support for the anti-Assad forces. What a coincidence that both recent GOP presidential candidates want Assad out of the way. If we didn’t know better, we might suspect that eliminating the last pro-Christian leader in the Middle East was a linchpin in the GOP geopolitical strategy. Until dissuaded by Putin, Obama also weighed the possibility of a “limited” strike on the Assad-held position.

To understand the utter brutality of ISIS, which has seized arms donated by the US thanks to our bipartisan military policy, watch the first video, but be forewarned. To understand brutality, you need to get a little taste of it. It helps to have a strong stomach (or at least a barf bag nearby) but you need to have the willingness to know the truth no matter how far removed it may be from our comfort zone and our normalcy bias. Because our security can no longer depend on traitors with power. It now depends entirely on us.

ISIS, the face of utter brutality:

Connecting the Dots

* Senator McCain meets with FSA ‘rebels’ in Syria: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/27/john-mccain-syria_n_3342897.html

* FSA tied to Al-Nusra: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/world/middleeast/syrian-rebels-tied-to-al-qaeda-play-key-role-in-war.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

* al-Nusra linked to ISIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front

Having watched our military policies in action, with the MSM muted, I have come to an unshakable conviction: there is no hope that the anti-Christian and anti-American leadership of the GOP and Democratic Party in Washington will loosen its grip on power or change its mind and stop supporting terror. No hope whatsoever. If you think there is, you are deluded and contributing to the success of evil. At some point, I believe our military will realize that they are literally fighting a false flag war to destroy America. There is no other way to see it or say it.

At that point they will have to make a tough decision: Either continue to obediently destroy their own country and everything it stands for, helping to erode its foundations and brutally slaughter the natural allies of the American people, as shown so vividly in that first video linked above, or go to Washington, D.C. and fight the true enemies of all God-fearing people everywhere.

The military has all the necessary guns and materiel. Their country, their families, and their security are at stake. Not fighting the terrorists in Washington guarantees our demise. Not a difficult decision when you look at it that way. Not a shot need be fired. The Washington leadership is nothing but craven cowards. Unfortunately for them, they may receive the same mercy they have shown us.

Source: Dr. Rich Swier, via Julio Severo in English

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Media Firestorm as Rick Perry Compares Homosexuality to Alcoholism

By Julio Severo

Texas Governor Rick Perry has caused a firestorm by comparing homosexuality to a disorder that people can avoid like alcoholism at an event in San Francisco.

Rick Perry

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, even though most of the event focused on economic issues, Perry was provocatively asked about the Texas Republican Party’s approval of platform language allowing Texans to seek voluntary counseling to leave the homosexual lifestyle. Perry responded to the question by saying that he did not know whether such so-called “reparative therapy” worked. 

The Chronicle then reported that Perry was asked by the event’s moderator if he considered homosexuality to be a disorder. Perry responded, “Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”

The Chronicle added that while the event in famously-liberal San Francisco was packed with Republicans, there was an audible mumbling immediately after the remark.

Decades ago, Democrats and other liberals began with “audible mumblings” about views of homosexuality as abnormal or vice. Today, they are stridently combative against any one espousing conservative moral stances. Signs to come about future Republicans?

The same provocative question that was asked from Perry could also have been asked from Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. Considering that before the Ukrainian crisis the Western media, especially the U.S. media, was obsessed about putting Russia in a firestorm for its law banning homosexual propaganda, any negative answer from Putin about homosexuality is sure to provoke more storms — and “audible mumblings” from Republicans.

In fact, Dr. Scott Lively, author of “The Pink Swastika,” has commented that the Ukrainian crisis, which has been fomented for years by George Soros and neocons, happened to provoke Russia as a possible answer to Russia taking a stand against homosexual propaganda in its society.

If even among Republicans Perry’s soft opposition to homosexuality has caused a “audible mumbling,” what about if he signed, as Putin did, a law banning homosexual propaganda in Texas?

His enemies would need a “Ukrainian crisis” to deflect his anti-homosexuality measures.

“Lucky” are the Saudi kings, because they can comfortably navigate through the U.S. media and government and go unchallenged about Saudi Arabia murdering homosexuals. There are no protests by Democrats and Republicans. There are no sanctions by Democrats and Republicans. And there are no “audible mumblings” by Democrats and Republicans.

Besides, the U.S. Embassy, which has hoisted the homosexual flag in some nations, would never do it in Saudi Arabia.

What is the Saudi secret?

Perry and Putin need to find it, because it is very uncomfortable and dangerous, because of the U.S. media and government, to oppose homosexual propaganda nowadays, if you are not a Saudi.

If you are a Saudi, no U.S. media and U.S. government official will bother you.

What is the Saudi secret?

Please, tell it to Perry and Putin.

Yet, even though he does not have the special exemption the Saudis enjoy, Perry is right: homosexuality is a vice, as alcoholism is. In fact, the Bible says: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV)

Men who practice homosexuality and drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God.

God said it. God put both sins in the same category of practices rejected in the kingdom of God.

Who can say that Perry’s comparison is wrong?

Perry is an evangelical Christian. I hope he may enact some law banning homosexual propaganda in Texas.

If the U.S. media and government want to harass his moral stance, he could tell them to hoist a homosexual flag in the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. Let them try to save homosexual Saudis from being murdered in this Islamic nation. Let us then see the results.

The important point for comparison is not if homosexuality is a vice as alcoholism, but why Saudis and other radical Muslims murder homosexuals, and why evangelical Christians like Perry and Orthodox Christians in Russia do not murder them.

If the U.S. intends to be the supreme advocate of homosexuality worldwide, why then do the U.S. media and government chastise evangelical Christians, Catholics and Orthodox Christians, but spare radical Muslims?

What is the secret? What are the interests?

With information from FoxNews and DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Tempestade midiática sobre Rick Perry, que comparou homossexualidade ao alcoolismo

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Lesbian who murdered her former lover’s daughter, 2, and attempted to kill her son, 10, left a note explaining she was inspired to do it by a sermon in a homosexual church

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Two weeks ago, a DailyMail report said that a Florida mental health counselor accused of murdering her lesbian lover’s two-year-old daughter wrote a note claiming a sermon by a lesbian pastor inspired the killing.

Lesbian tragedy: Police say Kymberley Lucas, 40, (right) killed girlfriend Jacquelyn Jamason's (left) daughter Elliana (center) and tried to kill her ten-year-old son (lower right)

Kimberly Lucas, 40, is accused of drowning her former lesbian partner Jacquelyn Jamason’s two-year-old daughter Elliana and attempting to kill her 10-year-old son Ethan, according to the DailyMail.

Lucas wrote in the note that a sermon by Metropolitan Community Church lesbian Pastor Lea Brown “really, really touched” her the day before the revenge killing carried out in response to Jamason ending their relationship. Metropolitan Community Church is a homosexual denomination that twists Scriptures to fit a homosexual “christianity” whose god is friendly to homosexual acts.

Kimberly Lucas claims that she was inspired by a sermon by lesbian reverend Lea Brown telling the story of when God instructed Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac

“Cops were called to Lucas’ Jupiter, Florida, home for a reported drowning. They found Elliana Lucas-Jamason dead,” said the DailyMail, which added, “Footage of the sermon posted by the church on YouTube shows Brown mention a specific Bible passage, Genesis 22, where God asks Abraham to kill his son Isaac.”

Murdered girl

Consistent with her homosexual church, which twists the Bible, Lucas “heard” the voice of their twisted god ordering her to kill the children of her former lesbian partner as a sacrifice.

The DailyMail report also said:

Lucas attempt to kill Jamason’s son was unsuccessful.

Police say Lucas and Jamason had recently ended their relationship.

Murdered girl and her brother

Lucas and Jamason are both licensed mental health counselors who maintain private practices in Palm Beach County.

Jamason runs jupiter-counseling.com, which says she specializes in group and family counseling and the treatment of depression.

Lucas was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder.

She is in police custody.

The ten-year-old boy is expected to survive.

The Metropolitan Community Church is expected to keep twisting the Scriptures to fit their homosexual “christianity.”

Kimberly Lucas and her former lesbian partner are licensed mental health counselors and Obama supporters

For an individual to say that he murdered a child because he “heard” a divine voice, the explanation is: 1) he is not mentally healthy, or 2) his mind has been deluged with dangerous lies and dangerous twisted “truths.”

For Kimberly Lucas, there were two delusions. One, from her mental health profession, which portrays homosexual behavior just as a normal behavior. Another, from her church, which misrepresents God as accepting homosexual behavior.

If it were not for these two factors, her delusions could easily be understood as personal delusions. Therefore, her insanity cannot be accounted for apart from the artificial normalcy that the mental health profession and homosexual churches impose regarding to homosexual perversions. And perversions always lead to other perversions, and to the innocent’ sacrifice.

With information from DailyMail.

Portuguese version of this article: Lésbica que assassinou filha de dois anos de sua ex-amante e tentou assassinar seu filho de 10 anos deixou uma nota explicando que ela havia sido inspirada a fazer isso por uma pregação numa igreja homossexual

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“For the first time in history,” said a Facebook post from U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, “the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has raised the Pride flag together with our American flag.”

A photo attached to the social media announcement shows the homosexual flag flying directly beneath the American flag, a bold statement in a primarily Jewish and Muslim part of the world.

In spite of its Christian cultural roots, the United States has shunned from defending Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Even U.S. conservative Christian presidents avoided to declare it. Yet, the U.S. government under Barack Obama has made homosexuality one of their top foreign policy concerns, working hard, through its embassies, to give preference to homosexuality.

With information from Charisma magazine.

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Coming Soon? A More Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and Less Christian America

By Julio Severo

There’s no doubt that the United States had a Christian beginning, first with the Pilgrim Fathers. Later, from the independence and on, America was a Protestant nation with Catholic and Jewish minorities. She was able consistently to keep this religious profile until the mid-20 century.

America was seen as the most Protestant nation in the world, and U.S. missionaries often taught about the divine blessings on a predominantly Protestant nation. America was cherished by us, by the example and sermons of missionaries, as a nation that had become strong because it embraced the Gospel.

I speak as a Brazilian greatly benefited by the wonderful U.S. missionary work.

But what is the religious profile of America today? America is still the most Protestant nation in the world, but her position will be surpassed by China in 10 years. The United States had 159 millions of Protestants in 2010 and China is expected to have 160 millions of Protestants in 2025. Yet, while Protestant Christians are increasing in China, their numbers are declining in the U.S.

The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, a group which assists in the U.S. Census, recently released an interesting map showing which religions rank No. 2 throughout the U.S. In some point in the next future, these religions may surpass Christian majorities, whether Protestant or Catholic, leaving America with a religious profile vastly different from her beginning.

Islam ranks as the second most prevalent religion in 20 states, many of which in the Bible belt, which has been a region where conservative Protestants have traditionally a massive control. The Islamic growth is certain to challenge this control. Judaism is the second most common faith in most of the Northeast, while towards the West, Buddhism is the second most common faith in 13 states. Hinduism is only the No. 2 religion in two states, Arizona and Delaware.

Notably, the survey considers Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other heretical sects as a part of Christianity.

Of course, Christian majorities in the U.S. are dominated by nominal Christians, not to mention liberal Christians, and the effects have been felt in the missionary field. In Brazil, Brian McLaren and other liberal American Protestant leaders, known for their sympathies for main points of the gay agenda, have best-selling books in the Brazilian Church.

As America heads to be surpassed by China as the most Protestant nation in the world, does her internal and often nominal Christianity head to be surpassed by Islam, Buddhism and other religions? The time will tell.

Is the time coming for the International Church to send missionaries to the U.S.?

With information of Charisma magazine.

Portuguese version of this article: Em futuro próximo? Uma América mais islâmica, budista, hindu e menos cristã

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Brazil’s child sex workers forced to cash in on World Cup

BRAZILIAN kids as young as 10 are being forced to sell themselves for sex on the streets to cash in on the hundreds of thousands of soccer fans heading to the World Cup, a shocking investigation has revealed.

As soccer fans descend on Brazil for the tournament this week, evil pimps are exploiting young children who are hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine and living on the streets, a report by British tabloid the Sunday People has revealed.

Sex trade ... with thousands of foreign tourists descending on Brazil this week, there are grave fears for the nation’s child prostiutes.

Young girls and boys high after sniffing glue openly sell themselves for sex on street corners in the city of Recife — which will host five matches — for as little as $4, the investigative report claims.

The problem is not just confined to Recife — child prostitution is endemic across the entire country.

To the north of Recife lies the beach resort city of Fortaleza, host to six World Cup matches and widely considered to a hotspot for child sex tourism

One factor that has allowed child prostitution to flourish in Brazil under the noses of police officers is that the country’s age of consent is 14.

Also, in 2012 a Brazilian court ruled that sex with a 12-year-old did not necessarily constitute statutory rape — a decision that Amnesty International blasted as “a green light for rapists.”

No future ... child prositution is rampant in Brazil, a problem many attribute to the lower age of consent. Source: Supplied

With 600,000 foreign soccer fans preparing to descend on the World Cup host nation this week, and 3 million Brazilian fans travelling around the country, there are grave fears the children’s plight will only get worse.

One child told the Sunday People how she regularly gets approached by dozens of men looking for sex — locals, tourists and taxi ­drivers.

Lorrisa, 13, said she sniffed strong industrial glue, which the locals kids call “cola”, to stave off hunger pangs.

“Sniffing the glue makes me feel dizzy and numb and it stops me feeling hungry so I don’t need to eat,” Lorrisa said.

“It helps me cope with the ­violence and danger on the streets.”

Life is cheap ... violence and drugs reign supreme on the streets of Recife. Here, a police officer detains alleged looters. Source: AP

An older woman who has lived on the streets since the age of seven said the children of Recife are at risk from local men and tourists.

She pointed out one boy aged 10 who had been forced into prostitution.

She said: “The children go with the men because they are high on drugs or need more money to buy drugs.

“They use drugs to numb the pain of the sexual abuse, become addicted then need to sell themselves over and over again to raise the money.”

Vicious cycle ... child sex workers get caught up in a neverending spiral of sexual abuse and drug addiction. Source: Supplied

Critics of Brazil’s Goverment say officials have pushed the child sex trade out of sight, but haven’t done enough to eradicate its root causes. They warn underage prostitution could explode during the World Cup.

“These girls come from extreme poverty, a culture of social exclusion and a tradition of profound disrespect for women,” Antonia Lima Sousa, a state prosecutor, told CNN.

The scourge of child prostitution “involves a whole tourism network, from agencies to hotels to taxis,” she says. “With these mega events, sexual exploitation is also going to be organised much more via the internet.”

At risk ... with the World Cup coming there are fears human traffickers will target children. Source: Supplied

Despite promises to eradicate child prostitution, the number of estimated child sex workers in Brazil stands at about half a million, according to the non-profit National Forum for the Prevention of Child Labour.

Last month, a global network of religious orders against human trafficking launched a campaign against child prostitution during the World Cup.

“In Brazil, our greatest concern is linked to the increase in the exploitation of child prostitution,” said Sister Gabriella Bottani, an Italian nun who is an organiser of the coalition involving 240 religious congregations from 79 countries.

She said international sporting events attract human traffickers, who trick jobseekers into slave labour and also kidnap children for illegal adoptions or forced begging.

Enough is enough ... anti-child prostitution campaigners Sisters Estrella Castallone and Gabriella Bottani speak at the Vatican. Source: AP

Footballers have also taken a stand against child exploitation in the It’s a Penalty campaign, which features Brazil’s David Luiz and was launched by former England captain Gary Lineker.

Sadly, it’s a long way from the streets where life is cheap and children can be sold for next to nothing.

And it’s a world away from the street corners where 14-year-old Calliem has been selling her body from sex since the age of 11.

“I have sex so many times with men and they only pay me five Brazilian real,” she told the Sunday People.

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